186 " LAWS AGAINST FOUL BEOOD. 



apiaries to transfer such bees to movable-frame hives vrithin a reasonable time, 

 to be specified in such order or notice, and in default of such transfer by the 

 owner or owners or other person in charge of such bees, tlie inspector may 

 destroy, or cause to be destroyed, all such hives, together with their contents, and 

 the expense thereof shall be a county charge, as provided in section two of this 

 act. 



" Sec. 8. Any person or persons who shall import bees into the State of Cali- 

 fornia, which said bees are not accompanied with a certificate from a duly 

 authorized inspector of apiaries or bee inspector, certifying that such bees 

 are free from foul brood and other infectious or contagious diseases, or who 

 shall import bees from another county within this State not having a bee in- 

 spector into a county having a bee inspector, shall immediately upon the receipt 

 of such bees cause them to be inspected by a duly authorized inspector of 

 apiaries, and if such bees are found to be infected with foul brood or other 

 Infectious or contagious disease such inspector shall proceed to have such dis- 

 ease eradicated as provided in section two of this act. Any person violating 

 the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 



" Sec. 9. It shall be unlawful for any person owning or controlling bees within 

 this State which are known to be infected with foul brood or other infectious 

 or contagious disease to remove said bees to a new location without first giving 

 ten days' notice to the county inspector of apiaries, stating when and where he 

 intends moving said bees. Any person violating the provisions of this section 

 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 



" Sec. 10. Any person or persons whose apiary is infected with foul brood or 

 any other infectious or contagious disease, and who sells, or offers for sale, from 

 such infected apiary and bees, hives, bee fixtures, or appurtenances, or who shall 

 expose in his bee yard or elsewhere any infected comb honey, beeswax, or 

 other infected thing, or who conceals the fact that his apiary is so infected shall 

 be deenied guilty of a misdemeanor. 



" Sec. 11. Any person or persons who shall resist, impede, or hinder in any 

 way the inspector of apiaries in the discharge of his duties under the provi- 

 sions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor." 



Sec. 3. This a?t shall take effect immediately. 



Approved February 10, 1903. 



COIiOEADO. 



Section 1. Upon the written application, under oath, of the president or sec- 

 retary of the Colorado State Bee Keepers' Association, or of any five actual bee 

 keepers residing in any county in this State, alleging upon information and be- 

 lief that the disease known as foul brood, or any other contagious or infectious 

 disease, exists among the bees in said county, or that infected articles are kept 

 in said county, and that there is danger that such disease will spread to other 

 apiaries, being made to the county court of said county, or to the judge thereof 

 at chambers, the said court or judge shall, by order to be entered in the records 

 of said court, appoint some competent, actual bee keeper residing in said county 

 to be county inspector of bees ; and the applicants shall state in this application 

 the names of the actual bee keepers of the county, so far as known to them. 



Sec. 2. The person so appointed shall, within five days after his appointment, 

 file with the clerk of such court his written acceptance of the oflice, and the 

 usual oath of oflice ; or in default thereof, the judge or court shall, in the same 

 manner, make new appointments until the said ofl[ice is filled. The inspector 



